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Academics on the picket line

March 16, 2018 fluff352 Comments

There's never been a strike in UK higher education like this one

Redundancy in universities

May 12, 2017May 17, 2022 fluff353 Comments

(written before The Open University began its extensive voluntary severance programme in 2018, but with a few relevant additions in italics...) It's déjà vu all over again... I had a bad case of déjà vu this week, as the universities of Manchester, Aberystwyth and Sunderland announced job cuts. I went through this at Reading in 2010… Continue reading Redundancy in universities →

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